Garage & Garden Facilities

Garage & Garden Facilities
© Nuno Castro

GARAGE & GARDEN FACILITIES

Nuno Castro

ARCHITECTS
Nuno Castro

PHOTOGRAPHS
Nuno Castro

YEAR
2008

LOCATION
Barcelos, Portugal

CATEGORY
Installations & Structures, Houses

Text description provided by architect.

This site originally was filled with a volume that lacked a clear form and was slicing the property and surrounding garden areas into unusable spaces.

Garage & Garden Facilities
© Nuno Castro
Garage & Garden Facilities
© Nuno Castro

The pre-existing garage was removed and a new design was proposed focusing on leisure, gardening, and storage, along with uniting the previously disjointed spaces.

The program required both public and private areas. A new concrete block garage was constructed, accommodating up to 3 cars as well as spaces for storage. The architect utilized the new garage structure to carve out nooks and maximizing the garden space.

Garage & Garden Facilities
© Nuno Castro
Garage & Garden Facilities
© Nuno Castro

The result is an interesting mix of colors and intimate spaces. The barbecue/outdoor entertainment area opes on to the lawn, and the gardens are defined in segments for vegetables and fruit trees.

Carefully placed on the southwest face on a steeply wooded slop are the utilities, laundry, bathroom, and a passageway to the garage.

Garage & Garden Facilities
© Nuno Castro
Garage & Garden Facilities
© Nuno Castro

Facing the vegetable garden is a space designed for the storage of tools and the inside wall, facing the parking spaces is another nook for wood storage.

The resulting structure is an 18 x 8.5 x 2.5m rectangle parallelepiped with a hipped roof, subdivided in 6 different parts fulfilling 6 different needs.

Each service is identified with a different color and is within a homogeneous concrete structure, composing 4 different facades of a right rectangular prism

Garage & Garden Facilities
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Garage & Garden Facilities
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Garage & Garden Facilities
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Garage & Garden Facilities
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Garage & Garden Facilities
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